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Terror And Triumph
Ending one year and beginning another always brings with it a reflectiveness, a sobering, a curious steadying. Another year gone! 1985 over! It passed so quickly! We hardly had time
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Our Savior In The Flesh!
And the word was made flesh! Flesh. How that word explodes with connotations. Initially our flesh is virginal and pure; the naked unwhipped, unsullied, unwrinkled flesh of a baby, full
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From Grateful to Giving
An idealistic young priest once visited Thomas Merton at the Trappist monastery in Kentucky and spoke to him about his agony over social justice issues. “I know it’s wrong,” he
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The Unfinished Symphony
Strange what meaning lies in paradox and anomaly! In defeat there is a victory, in humiliation there is glory, in confusion there’s always a new clarity, in the absurd one
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Falling Into God’s Arms
We live in too much fear of God, trusting too little that God understands and accepts us as we are, with all our adolescent mistakes, betrayals and weaknesses. As an
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From Fantasy To Fulfilment
There is something so nice about daydreaming. There, our dreams can come true and we attain that one-in-a-billion specialness that we ache for. In our daydreams, we are the superstars:
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More Tantrums Than Tears
Every tear brings the Messiah closer. Tears and messiahs, so seldom do we connect these two! Our age is characterized by impatience, by an unwillingness to ache, to long, to
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Becoming The Real Thing
One of the most debilitating aspects of life today is that we do not admit to each other the cost of struggle. Our real fears are seldom allowed to surface.
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Whose Kingdom, Lord?
Every so often, a book comes along that is truly moral. It challenges so deeply our moral conceptions that we end up in a certain darkness, punched to a new
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Married To Sacrifice
Recently, I was asked to preach at a liturgy within which a young woman made her final vows as a religious sister. A rare event. But she is a rare